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@@ -1,35 +1,4 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 -December 30, 1893, by Various - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 30, 1893 - -Author: Various - -Editor: Francis Burnand - -Release Date: September 1, 2012 [EBook #40636] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH *** - - - - -Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Lesley Halamek and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40636 *** * * * * * @@ -592,7 +561,7 @@ _Q._ But if he is an old bachelor? _A._ He declares that he likes to see the delight of other people's children. -_Q._ What is the _specialite_ of a Christmas family party? +_Q._ What is the _spécialité_ of a Christmas family party? _A._ Row all round. @@ -660,7 +629,7 @@ will "do as well." "And," quoth the Baron, suddenly inspired, "what a series of songs for Publishers and Bookbinders might be written! For example, _'My Mother bids me bind my books!' 'I am inter-leaving thee in sorrow.' Cum multis aliis suggestionibus!_ But this is -_delassement_. Let our toast be, 'Our noble Shelves!'--'our noble +_délassement_. Let our toast be, 'Our noble Shelves!'--'our noble Book-shelves!'" explains the Baron, gaily; and so back to the Brown Study where, as Baron BROWN BEARD, he disposes of the various heads in his department, and signs himself, THE JUST AND GENEROUS BARON DE @@ -819,7 +788,7 @@ _M. Mag._ (_recoiling_). Nay; mine intentions looked not toward so dire result! I cannot bless---- _The Spirit._ How, good Stipendiary? Dost thou now disown me, thine -own Spirit? Thou must surely bless thy _protege_, him who but carries +own Spirit? Thou must surely bless thy _protégé_, him who but carries out thy methods to their logical result! And see, I summon others of thy choice; this good butcher who hath sent unwholesome meat to London to feed the poor. Thou didst say of him, "_A most inhuman, @@ -934,7 +903,7 @@ interesting feature." No doubt. But _which_ "feature," and _whose_ feature" in the portrait belong? They cannot surely have only one feature among them! Among the special contributors, each of course with distinctive features, are Sir AUGUSTUS HARRIS, Mr. SUTHERLAND -EDWARDS, Mr. ARTHUR A BECKETT, and Mr. DAVENPORT ADAMS. Excellent +EDWARDS, Mr. ARTHUR À BECKETT, and Mr. DAVENPORT ADAMS. Excellent company each, with most interesting features. But which feature is to be taken as representing the lot? "Nose?" Well, there's point in that. "Cheek?" Ahem! Will it be "All their eye?" Evidently the only way @@ -1013,8 +982,8 @@ Influenza. THE KISS THAT COSTS. [A fair plaintiff, who brought a breach of promise action - worth under ordinary circumstances at least L1000, had to be - content with L100 because she had in the meantime been kissed + worth under ordinary circumstances at least £1000, had to be + content with £100 because she had in the meantime been kissed by a new suitor.] The gorse is out in kissing time, @@ -1175,7 +1144,7 @@ will "go off" well! "Book that Failed" (The), 123 - Brick-a-Brac, 195 + Brick-à -Brac, 195 Bright and Beautiful Working Man, 192 @@ -1217,7 +1186,7 @@ will "go off" well! Conversation-Book for Candidates, 258 - Conversion a la Mode, 121 + Conversion à la Mode, 121 Cophetua, L.C.C., 113 @@ -1253,7 +1222,7 @@ will "go off" well! "Devil's Advocate" (The), 51 - Diary a la Russe (A), 193 + Diary à la Russe (A), 193 Directors' Vade Mecum (The), 49 @@ -1290,7 +1259,7 @@ will "go off" well! Expostulation (An), 216 - FABIUS Fin-de-Siecle, 225 + FABIUS Fin-de-Siècle, 225 Fallen Art (A), 25 @@ -1366,7 +1335,7 @@ will "go off" well! How to Write a Cheap Christmas Number, 265 - "Hymen Hymenaee!" 6 + "Hymen Hymenæe!" 6 IDEAL Conversation (The), 159 @@ -1376,7 +1345,7 @@ will "go off" well! Inquiry (An), 233 - Intelligence a l'Americaine, 10 + Intelligence à l'Americaine, 10 JOHN Bull's Naval Vade Mecum, 118 @@ -1517,7 +1486,7 @@ will "go off" well! Noble Organ-grinder (The), 217 - No Raison d'etre! 216 + No Raison d'être! 216 Not a Fair Exchange, 177 @@ -1566,7 +1535,7 @@ will "go off" well! "Paper of the Day after To-morrow" (The), 229 - "Pas Meme Academecien!" 162 + "Pas Même Académecien!" 162 "Pictures from 'Punch,'" 177 @@ -1720,7 +1689,7 @@ will "go off" well! "Tears, idle Tears!", 264 - Testimonial Manque (A), 4 + Testimonial Manqué (A), 4 Then and Now, 157 @@ -1876,7 +1845,7 @@ LARGE ENGRAVINGS. Handy Boy (The), 247 - "Hymen Hymenaee!" 7 + "Hymen Hymenæe!" 7 Lesson for "Labour" (A), 139 @@ -2300,360 +2269,4 @@ the door." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 30, 1893, by Various -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH *** - -***** This file should be named 40636.txt or 40636.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/6/3/40636/ - -Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Lesley Halamek and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 30, 1893 - -Author: Various - -Editor: Francis Burnand - -Release Date: September 1, 2012 [EBook #40636] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH *** - - - - -Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Lesley Halamek and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - * * * * * - - Punch, or the London Charivari - - Volume 105, December 30, 1893. - - _edited by Sir Francis Burnand_ - - * * * * * - - - - -[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF MR. "MINCE-PIE," - -_THE_ M.P. FOR CHRISTMAS.] - - * * * * * - -THE ADVENTURES OF PICKLOCK HOLES. - -(_By Cunnin Toil._) - -No. VII.--THE STOLEN MARCH. - -(_Continued._) - -As soon as we entered the drawing-room all the little GUMPSHONS -clapped their hands with delight, and surrounded their Uncle PICKLOCK, -each of them attempting to infer from the expression on the great -detective's countenance what it was that he carried in his left -coat-tail pocket. "I know what it is," said EDGAR ALLAN POE GUMPSHON, -a boy of fifteen; "it's plum-cake. I know it must be, because I never -seed it, so it ain't seed-cake." GABORIAU GUMPSHON, aged thirteen, -opined it was a packet of bull's-eyes, "'cos that's what detectives -always carry on dark nights," whilst ANN RADCLIFFE GUMPSHON declared -with certainty that it must be nuts, for she had just heard a cracker -explode in the street. "Children," said PICKLOCK HOLES, "you are -nearly right. Your powers have much improved. I am delighted to see -that you are kept up to the mark;" and, speaking thus, he produced -from his pocket an apple, which he presented to EDGAR, a pocket-knife -which he handed to the jubilant GABORIAU, and a pincushion, which was -immediately clasped and carried off in the chubby hand of little ANN -RADCLIFFE. "A year ago," said PICKLOCK, turning to me, "these children -could not have reasoned inductively with one half of their present -approximate accuracy; but my dear sister, Heaven bless her! is a -wonderful teacher, the best and cleverest of us all. Indeed, indeed -you are, PHILIPPA," he continued, warmly embracing Mrs. GUMPSHON. "I -am a mere bungler compared to you. But come, let us to business." At -a signal from Lady HOLES the happy children trooped off to bed, and we -elders were left alone. - -Sir AMINADAB opened the conversation. "I sent for you, my dear boy," -he said, "because I have just received from one of my agents in -the North information of an important case which demands immediate -investigation. Neither HAYLOFT nor SKAIRKROW can go, having business -that keeps them in London. I look, therefore, to you to cover the -family name with new lustre by solving this extraordinary mystery." -Here the old man paused, as though overcome by emotion. PICKLOCK -encouraged him with an expressive look, and he continued:-- - -"This morning," he said, "I received from my agent this letter." He -drew a sheet of paper from his breast-pocket, and read, in tremulous -tones, as follows:-- - - "'_Tochtachie Castle, Daffshire._ - -"'SIR,--Lord TOCHTACHIE has been robbed. I overheard him last night -conversing with the Hon. IAN STRUNACHAR, his eldest son, who used the -following words: "Not a doubt of it. They have stolen a march----" -More I could not hear at the moment. The case is of immense -importance, and I trust you will lose no time in sending a competent -investigator. I have, of course, concealed both my presence here and -my knowledge of the theft from his lordship. - - "'Yours faithfully, 'DAVID MCPHIZZLE.'" - -"There, my boy, is the case. Will you go and help a Scotch -representative peer to recover his own? Think how terrible it must -be to lose the march or boundary that separates your ancestral -domain from that of a neighbour whose whole course of life may be -antipathetic to you. Will you go?" - -A wave of emotion passed over my friend's face. I could see that -a struggle of no ordinary kind was raging in his breast. Finally, -however, he looked at me, and his mind, I knew, was made up. In -another ten minutes we had bidden adieu to his family, and were -speeding northwards in the Scotch express. - -Over the details of the journey it is not necessary to linger. Suffice -it to say that on the following morning we arrived at Tochtachie, and -took up our quarters in a deserted barn situated in the very centre of -the estate. From this point we pursued our investigations. Our first -proceeding was to interview the local constabulary, but we found them -as obtuse and as foolishly incredulous as policemen are all the world -over. One of them, indeed, went so far as to hint that HOLES was -"havering," which I understand to be an ancient Gaelic word signifying -metaphysical talk, but a look from the great detective chilled him -into silence. Day by day we worked, and not even the night gave us -a rest from our self-sacrificing labours. We mapped out the whole -district into square yards; we gathered the life-history of every -single inhabitant on the estate; we left no clue untracked, no -loophole unblocked, no single piece of evidence unexamined, no -footstep unmeasured. We collected every scrap of torn letter, every -crumpled telegram-form. The very heather of the moor, and the trees -growing in the policies of the Castle were compelled by HOLES' -marvellous inductive powers to yield to us their secrets, until after -weeks of patient toil we at last judged ourselves to be in possession -not only of the stolen march, but also of evidence that would bring -conviction home to the guilty party. We had paused, I remember, by a -heap of granite at the roadside. HOLES seemed strangely excited. "A -march," I heard him muttering, "is performed by footsteps; steps are -often made of stone. Can this be it? It must be! It is!" Then, with -a shout of triumph, he gave orders to have the heap loaded on to a -country cart, which was to follow us to the Castle. - -We arrived in the great courtyard at about seven o'clock in the -evening. HOLES slipped from my side, entered the house, and after -a few moments returned to my side. We then clanged the bell, and -demanded to see his lordship. In a few moments Lord TOCHTACHIE -appeared, surrounded by kilted retainers, bearing torches, and -intoning in unison the mournful sporan of the clan. It was a weird and -awful sight. But HOLES, unemotional as ever, advanced at once to the -haughty Scotchman, before whose eye half a county was accustomed to -tremble, and, without any ado, addressed him thus: "My Lord, your -march has been stolen. Nay, do not interrupt me. Your guards are -careless, but not criminal--of that I can assure you. Here is the -stolen property; I restore it to you without cost." At this moment -the cart rumbled up, and ere the peer had time to utter a word, it had -discharged its contents into the middle of the yard. HOLES went on, -but in a lower voice, so as to be heard only by Lord TOCHTACHIE: "The -guilty party, my Lord, is your honoured father-in-law. He dare not, -he cannot, deny it. He is, I know, blind and deaf and dumb. These -qualities do not, however, exclude the possibility of crime. I have -just found these pieces of granite in his morning-room. The proof is -complete." - -At this moment a shot was heard in the Castle, and directly afterwards -a frightened butler rushed up to his lordship and whispered to him. -"Ha! say you so?" almost screamed Lord TOCHTACHIE. "That amounts to a -confession. Mr. HOLES," he continued, "you have indeed rendered me a -service. My unfortunate, but guilty father-in-law has shot and missed -himself through the head. But in any ease the honour of the house is, -I know, safe in your hands." - -I need hardly say that HOLES has never violated his lordship's -confidence, and the Daffshire peasants still speculate amongst -themselves upon the tortuous mystery of the march which was stolen and -restored. - - NOTE.--There is no proof positive given by any eye-witness - whose veracity is unimpeachable of the death of the great - amateur detective as it has been described in the _Strand - Magazine_ for this month. _Where is the merry Swiss boy who - delivered the note and disappeared?_ What was the symbolic - meaning of the alpenstock with the hook at the end, left on - the rock? Why, that he had _not_ "taken his hook." PICKLOCK - HOLES has disappeared, but so have a great many other people. - That he will turn up again no student of detective history and - of the annals of crime can possibly doubt. Is it not probable - that he has only dropped out of the _Strand Magazine_? And - is it not equally probable that under some alias he will - re-appear elsewhere? - - _Verb. sap._--ED. - - * * * * * - -FATHER CHRISTMAS leaves his cards on everybody about this time, as he -is here only for one day, and off the next. He has employed Messrs. -MARCUS WARD & CO. to do them, and excellent they are all round. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH. - - _Lady Betty_ (_proud of the old ancestral mansion where the - family have lived ever since the reign of Henry the Eighth_). - "JUST FANCY WHAT PAPA'S HAVING DONE! HE'S HAVING THE ELECTRIC - LIGHT PUT IN!" - - _Prosaic Sister-in-law_ (_from Chicago_). "I'M REAL GLAD TO - HEAR IT. IT'LL BE THE MAKING OF THE PLACE!"] - - * * * * * - -ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. - -EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P. - -_House of Commons, Friday, December 22._--House adjourned for -Christmas Recess; pleased to find that it will include the whole of -Christmas Day. Some talk of being satisfied with the Sunday, spending -Christmas Day in further pursuit of Parish Councils Bill. But after -deliberation decided to have a real good holiday on Christmas Day. -Came across SQUIRE OF MALWOOD just now. Was chalking up on door "Back -in ten minutes." - -"It's a little more than that, of course, TOBY," he said. "But that -has business-like look. Am told it's what they do in the City before -going out for hasty luncheon." - -[Illustration: Toby, M.P., enjoys his holiday.] - -Enjoyed my holiday reading HERBERT MAXWELL'S life of OLD MORALITY -just published by BLACKWOOD. A difficult task; much easier to make -attractive book out of life of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE than with WILLIAM -HENRY SMITH as subject. That MAXWELL has succeeded appears from fact -that one leaves these volumes with warmer esteem and sincerer liking -for OLD MORALITY even than was born of close observation through -many Parliamentary sessions. MAXWELL has had full access to his -correspondence and journals. Uses them with great discretion; they -bring into mellow, clear light the capable, unselfish, courageous man, -ever following the loadstar of Duty. House of Commons used to smile -when OLD MORALITY, faced by any difficulty or dilemma, talked about -his "duty to his QUEEN and country." In his private letters he does -not put it in that oratorical form. But they are full of references -to the calls of duty. Stricken with a painful malady, worn in body and -wounded in spirit, OLD MORALITY still sturdily trod the narrow path. -There is little doubt that had he, two years before the end came, -retired from the Leadership of the House of Commons his genial -presence might have been with us to-day. But he was wanted at his -post, and he stuck to it. - -Writing on the 17th March, 1889, he says: "We have trouble in -politics, and I am very weary. But I must go on doing my daily work as -best I can, looking for guidance and wisdom where alone it can be had -until my rest comes." This cry for rest was always sounding, through -day and night. A few weeks earlier he wrote to another friend: "I can -say God help me. He will take me out of my work when I am no longer -required, and then will come rest." - -[Illustration: The last I saw of Harcourt.] - -His last appearance in a semi-official capacity was in July, 1891, -when he went to Hatfield to meet the German Emperor. In the last -letter written to his wife he says, "Observing I looked tired last -night, Lady SALISBURY urged me to go to bed early: which I did." One -of his colleagues in the Cabinet, a fellow-guest at Hatfield on this -occasion, tells me he had occasion to know that OLD MORALITY was -in such pain he could not rest in his bed, spending the long night -walking about the room, with occasional rest in an arm-chair. Not -a word of this is written in the letter to Mrs. SMITH, in which he -reports that "everything has gone off wonderfully well to-day, which -must be very satisfactory to the Salisburys." Under his bourgeois -habit and unassuming manner W. H. SMITH modestly hid a chivalrous -mind and a noble nature. He had a kindly heart, too. But everyone knew -that, since he wore it on his sleeve. - -_Business done._--Adjourned for so-called Christmas holidays. Think -I'll go and call on Lobengula. "Back in ten minutes," as the SQUIRE -says. - - * * * * * - -EDEPOL! - -SIR,--"I'm all the way from Westminster," and the work I have to do -is to let you know about the Latin play performed there. PLAUTUS, -in truth, is not a wildly exciting writer, and there is in the -_Trinummus_ a tameness which, extending, as it does, through five -acts, becomes almost oppressive at the end. The young actors looked -well and enunciated clearly, and one of them, Mr. J. F. WATERS, showed -considerable ability as an actor. But we don't go to the College -of St. Peter at Westminster merely to see the play. There are other -interests. It is pleasant to watch the Old Westminsters rubbing -recollections with one another between the acts, and endeavouring -gallantly during the performance to keep their rusty Latin abreast of -the various situations. Laughter in a Latin play straggles. It is like -a dropping fire of musketry. A Westminster master probably leads -it off; various intelligent veterans take it up dutifully, and the -ladies, bless their unlatinised minds, follow faintly towards the -end. If a London manager wants applause in his theatre let him hire a -contingent of small Westminster boys. They have attained to absolute -perfection in the arts of the _claque_. At no Paris Theatre is it -better done. The epilogue showed a pretty wit and a high degree of -skill in the management of hexameter and pentameter. No one could have -believed that the Kodak advertisement, "you press the button, we do -the rest," would have made so good a Latin line. Much pleased, and so -to bed. - - Yours, A VAGRANT. - - * * * * * - -"A MERE QUESTION OF TIME."--_Example:_ "What o'clock is it?" - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: OUR "HOUSE PARTY" AT CHRISTMAS.] - - * * * * * - -NEW YEAR'S EVE AT LATTERDAY HALL. - -(_An Incident._) - -SCENE I.--_Library in Latterday Hall_, Sir LYON TAYMER'S _Country -House_. Sir LYON TAYMER _discovered fuming by the mantelpiece, while -his_ Secretary _is glancing over some correspondence_. - -_Sir Lyon_ (_irritably_). Here--I suppose you will have to answer -this. - -_Secretary._ What is that, Sir LYON? - -_Sir Lyon._ You know how anxious I am that my New Year's party -should be a success. A whole heap of celebrities are coming, and, -notwithstanding the immense expense, I engaged a party of Ghosts to -amuse them. Now I have just had a telepathic communication from these -Shadows of Shades--(that's all they are--only Ghosts of departed -heroes and heroines in fiction)--asking whether they're to be treated -on an equality with the other guests, or as mere entertainers! Did you -ever hear of such impertinence! The spokesman--I should say, perhaps, -the Spooksman--is, of all people in the other world, the VICAR OF -WAKEFIELD. A clergyman too! It's quite inconsistent; and so snobbish! - -_Secretary._ Dear Sir LYON, excuse me, but it's perfectly natural that -Ghosts should be a little sensitive on the social question. Remember, -for years they were ignored, or looked upon as mountebanks. It is -really only of late that there has been all this excitement about -them, so it is not surprising they are anxious to be taken seriously. - -_Sir Lyon._ Well, I suppose I am old-fashioned, but it seems to me -quite ridiculous. These infernal Ghosts give themselves as many airs -as though they were--the Blue Hungarians, at least. - -_Secretary._ Ah, from a band we might expect airs. But I should advise -you very strongly, Sir _Lyon_, to treat them as friends. You _must_ be -up to date. - -_Sir Lyon_ (_with disgust_). Allow them to dine--perhaps to -_dance_--with my guests? - -_Secretary_ (_with calmness_). Certainly they will have to dine; and, -as to dancing, of course they _must_, if they're received on an equal -_footing_. - - [_Smiles to himself at his joke._ - -_Sir Lyon._ Oh--well--I suppose I must give in. Let them know at once, -and for heaven's sake mind they're punctual. - - [_Scene closes as the Secretary hastily seizes a slate, - and automatically writes to the Ghosts a very cordial and - courteously-worded invitation._ - -[Illustration: Dorian Gray taking Juliet in to dinner.] - -SCENE II.--_New Year's Eve at Latterday Hall. In the magnificent -dining-room are seated at dinner a large, well-known, and incongruous -company. The Ghosts are chatting away in the most genial manner -with the living distinguished people, and positively making the -"celebrities" quite "at home."_ DANIEL DERONDA _shows a marked liking -for_ DODO, _whom he has taken to dinner, and is indulging in a light -and airy flirtation with her, which takes a form peculiar to himself_. - -_Daniel Deronda_ (_earnestly_). Who has ever pinched into its pilulous -smallness the cobweb of matrimonial duty? Honesty is surely the -broadest basis of joy in life. - -_Dodo_ (_a modern Detail in accordion pleating, subject to morbid fits -of irrelevant skirt-dancing_). Oh, Mr. DERONDA, what a silly girl I -am! I can't bear that proverb about "Honesty being the best policy." -It sounds like a sort of life Insurance. - - [_Giggles contemporarily._ DORIAN GRAY _having taken_ JULIET - _to dinner, and not getting on with her very well, is staring - with unfeigned horror at_ ROCHESTER, _opposite, who is - bullying_ JANE EYRE _to a pitiable extent. Behind him is a - screen of gilt Spanish leather, wrought with a rather florid - Louis Seize design and encrusted with pearls, moonstones, and - large green emeralds_. - -_Dorian_ (_aside, to_ Young Subaltern, _who has come Home. On leave. -For Christmas_). Who _is_ that dreadful man? - -_Young Subaltern._ Who? Old ROCHESTER? Oh, he's a Plain Hero. From the -past. He's all right. How well you're looking! Younger than ever, by -Jove! Which is curious. But why that absurd buttonhole? - -_Dorian_ (_hurt_). You never like anything I wear. You Anglo-Indians -are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. - - [_Arranges his fringe in an old Dutch-silver mirror on the - opposite mantelpiece, framed in curiously-carved ivory Cupids, - and studded with precious stones, chiefly opals, sapphires, - and chrysoberyls._ - -_Ethel Newcome_ (_to_ Secretary). Who are those two pretty American -girls? They seem to be attracting a great deal of attention. (_I_ am -completely forgotten, I notice.) Do their dresses come from Paris? - -_Secretary._ No. I think not, dear Miss NEWCOME. From Messrs. HOWELLS -AND JAMES, I fancy. - -_Richard Feverel_ (_cheerily, across the table to_ Mr. PICKWICK). -In tolerance of some dithyrambic inebriety--quiverings of -semi-narration--we seem to be entering the circle of a most magnetic -pseudo-polarity. Don't we? - -_Mr. Pickwick_ (_puzzled_). Very kind of you to say so, I'm sure. May -I have the pleasure of taking wine with you? - - [_Dinner proceeds with animation._ BOOTLES' Baby, Little JIM, - PAUL DOMBEY, _and the_ Heavenly Twins _come in to dessert, and - are more or less troublesome_. - -_Sir Lyon_ (_aside, to_ Secretary, _when the ladies have retired_). -I say, you know I am afraid this is going to hang fire. It's nothing -less than a miracle for a social affair to go off well when the people -are not in the same set. Old PICKWICK's been asking for "a wassail -bowl." I haven't got such a thing about me; and I should have thought -'74 champagne would have been good enough, but he says it's like our -humour--_too new_! The children are bothering to know why there isn't -a Christmas-tree. - -_Secretary._ Tell them to go to the--Haymarket. The reward will -be--swift. Might I suggest mistletoe? I should be very pleased to go -under it with Madame BOVARY, just to show the others how to---- - -_Sir Lyon_ (_stiffly_). Much obliged, but I will not give you that -trouble. If _anyone_ goes under the mistletoe with Madame BOVARY it -will be myself. Remember that. - -_Secretary._ Oh, certainly! I merely meant----How about -crackers? I could set the thing going by pulling one with Miss OLIVIA. -The old Vicar said just now, in his pointed, Gothic way, something -about times having changed, and---- - -_Sir Lyon._ Yes, we'll have crackers, but you can leave _me_ to pull -the first one with Miss OLIVIA. It would look better. Perhaps we'd -better let the Ghosts give their entertainment now--eh? - -_Secretary._ I'll arrange it at once. - -SCENE III.--_In the Hall, in which is a temporary theatre; all the -Modern Celebrities are seated on rows of chairs, chattering, flirting, -and discussing Insomnia and the New Criticism. Behind the scenes the -Ghosts are disputing as to which shall recite first, the order of -precedence depending entirely on the question as to which is the most -completely defunct. Finally_, ERNEST MALTRAVERS _and_ TOM JONES _go on -together, and the Curtain goes up_. - -_Ernest Maltravers_ (_musingly, in a low yet ringing voice, in which -Pride struggles with Emotion_). Let us learn, from yon dinner-table, -o'er which brooded the spirits of the Novelists of all time, to lift -ourselves on the wings of Romanticism back to Bombastic and Primeval -Prose. (_Breaks off suddenly. Aside, to_ TOM JONES.) I cannot go on -like this. We ought to have had a _scenario_. - -_Tom Jones_ (_suppressing laughter, aside_). Why, thou foolish -scoundrel, is there not one in front? How else could be seated there -so many fair ladies and gallant gentlemen? - -_Ernest Maltravers_ (_aside_). In the contemplation of your idiocy, I -curb with difficulty the impulse that leads me to crush the life from -your bosom. Know, Ignorant One, that a _scenario_ is not the same -thing as an auditorium. - - [TOM JONES _is about to attack him with fine old English - violence, when the curtain suddenly falls. The entertainment - is interrupted. The audience appear at once amused and - shocked._ DORIAN_ takes out his little vinaigrette exquisitely - set with turquoises, cymophanes, amethysts, and tourmalines, - and offers it to the_ Subaltern, _who, evidently unaware of - its use, pockets it._ - -_Subaltern._ You got that out of a cracker, didn't you? I'll take it -Home. For the kids. - - [_The entr'acte is growing so prolonged that the_ Secretary - _goes behind the scenes to know the cause of the delay. He - finds all confusion. The party has been increased by the - presence of_ Mr. STEAD'S Spook JULIA, _who, having half an - hour to spare, has come to protest against the "indignity" - as she calls it, of fine old crusted Ghosts being expected to - perform to a lot of mere modern myths. She speaks with such - eloquence that she persuades them, one and all, to leave - without finishing their performance and entirely without - ceremony. Nothing the_ Secretary _can say has any effect, and - they all vanish, leaving "not a wrack behind," except, a slate - pencil JULIA has dropped in her excitement_. - -_Sir Lyon_ (_after hearing the news_). Shameful! Never again will I -have a Ghost in this house. This is what comes of treating them as -equals! I'll--I'll--I'll write to the Psychical Society! - - [_Scene closes as all the guests crowd round him and ask him - to drink the health of Modern Fiction and--The New Year._ - - * * * * * - -MAY AND DECEMBER. - -[Brighton is now represented by two of the youngest members in the -House.... Mr. GLADSTONE intends to spend Christmas at Brighton.] - - Just now, when the weather seems May in December, - They've sent up from Brighton another young member, - Two juvenile gentlemen sit for the town, - Their ages united just two-thirds would be - Of that of the statesman who often goes down - To seek renewed youth by the murmuring sea-- - Mr. G. - - Two Tories--meek May fighting sturdy December - Their foe is an old hand these lads should remember. - They'll probably sit most judiciously dumb, - Or only object like the murmuring sea. - To the House, sent from Brighton, the youngest have come; - From the House, down at Brighton, the oldest will be-- - Mr. G. - - * * * * * - -A SEASONABLE VADE MECUM. - -(_By Ker Mudgeon, Senior._) - -_Question._ What is the most satisfactory motto for Christmas? - -_Answer._ That it "comes but once a year." - -_Q._ Then it is as well to take a gloomy view of the season? - -_A._ That is the only reasonable aspect in the face of a pile of -"Christmas bills." - -_Q._ What are Christmas cards? - -_A._ Advertisements of existence sent to enemies as well as friends. - -_Q._ What is a plum pudding? - -_A._ Indigestion in the concrete. - -_Q._ And a mince pie? - -_A._ An excuse for a glass of brandy or a glass of any other equally -potent liquid. - -_Q._ Does old-fashioned English Christmas fare benefit anyone? - -_A._ Yes; doctors and chemists. - -_Q._ Why does an elderly person go the pantomime? - -_A._ Because he likes it just as much as a schoolboy. - -_Q._ What reason does he give for his visits to Drury Lane, the -Lyceum, or the Crystal Palace? - -_A._ That he visits those places of entertainment for the sake of the -children. - -_Q._ But if he is an old bachelor? - -_A._ He declares that he likes to see the delight of other people's -children. - -_Q._ What is the _spécialité_ of a Christmas family party? - -_A._ Row all round. - -_Q._ What are the regulation wishes of Yule-tide? - -_A._ A Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. - -_Q._ And the probable result? - -_A._ The attainment of neither. - - * * * * * - -CROSSED IN LOVE.--A wedding-present cheque. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: FINAL ORDERS. - -_Keeper (to Boy out for his first day's driving)._ "MIND AND SPREAD -YERSELF OUT!"] - - * * * * * - -OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. - -"Sir," said a wisely deferential friend of the Baron's, approaching -the Baronial arm-chair wherein sat His Super-Excellency regaling -himself in truly Regal-Cole-ian fashion, "Sir, I present to your -notice a book entitled _In Search of a Climate_." "With such a title," -quoth the Baron, in poetic humour, "it should have been dedicated -to His Grace of Canterbury. Would not this distich well favour the -title-page? Listen:-- - - "'In Search of a Climate,' | From CHARLES B. NOTTAGE, - This to the Primate! | Who lives in a cottage." - -"W. A.," or "The Wisely Appreciative," went into wisely appreciative -ecstasies. "Baron," he presently resumed, "you will be graciously -pleased to read it." "I will recline on my sofa," returned the -Baron, "and, in that position, do my level best." So saying, His -Super-Excellency suited the action to the word, and, waving his hand -in token that he was not to be disturbed for the space of some forty -winks or more, he bent his head in silent study o'er the somewhat -bulky volume. "One of the most interesting and instructive chapters in -this excellently elaborated book of reference," said the Baron, some -time afterwards--"a book full of 'wise saws and modern instances'--is -that headed 'Religion and Rum,' whence it appears that, whatever -form of worship the Natives from time to time might adopt, it always -included the cult of spirits in some form or other. The title of this -chapter," observed the Baron, judicially, "instead of 'Religion -and Rum,' should rather have been 'Rum Religions, or Spirituous -Influences.' Towards the close of the book the author still seems to -be _In Search of a Climate_. But what sort of a climate does he seek? -One to suit everybody? Why, like the distinguished individual who was -'terribly disappointed with the Atlantic,' there are people, quoted -as testimony above proof by Mr. NOTTAGE, of the Cottage, who were -'all terribly disappointed with the climate of Santa Barbara and Los -Angeles.' Well, then," quoth the Baron, "try Margate and Ramsgate." -The book, attractively got up, is published by the firm whose name -always recalls to the Baron's verse-atile mind that delightful poem -set to dulcet music yclept "_Soft and Low, Soft and Low_," only that -the names are SAMP-SON Low, Low & Co., which, set to the same strain, -will "do as well." "And," quoth the Baron, suddenly inspired, "what a -series of songs for Publishers and Bookbinders might be written! For -example, _'My Mother bids me bind my books!' 'I am inter-leaving -thee in sorrow.' Cum multis aliis suggestionibus!_ But this is -_délassement_. Let our toast be, 'Our noble Shelves!'--'our noble -Book-shelves!'" explains the Baron, gaily; and so back to the Brown -Study where, as Baron BROWN BEARD, he disposes of the various heads -in his department, and signs himself, THE JUST AND GENEROUS BARON DE -BOOK-WORMS. - - * * * * * - -MRS. RAM says no wonder people are blown out at Christmas, as they do -fill themselves with so many "combustibles." - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: "SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE." - -(_A Meeting of the Church of England Temperance Society. The Vote of -Thanks to the Chairman_.) - -"AND, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET ME POINT OUT TO YOU, IN THESE DAYS -WHERE THE ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH IS SO OFTEN CALLED INTO QUESTION, -THAT OUR REVERED DIOCESAN COULD NEVER BE CALLED AN '_ORNAMENTAL -BISHOP'_!"] - - * * * * * - -"THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT." - -(_Passages from a Political "Christmas Carol" of the Period -descriptive of a slumbering Stateman's Yule-Tide Dream._) - - -Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously sonorous snore, and sitting up -on what seemed to be a nightmare-like blend of the Treasury Bench and -his own bed, to get his thoughts together, SADSTONE (like _Scrooge_) -had no occasion to be told that Big Ben was again upon the stroke of -Twelve. - -Now, being prepared for almost anything--from J-SS-E C-LL-NGS to -a Vote of Censure--he was not by any means prepared for Nothing! -Consequently, when the bell boomed its twelfth stroke, and nothing -appeared, or happened--not even a nightmare in the shape of T-MMY -B-WL-S, or a Motion for Adjournment--he was taken with a fit of the -shivers. - -At last he began to think that the source and centre of the ghostly -light which seemed to gleam on him from nowhere in particular, might -be in the adjoining room, his own private Downing Street _sanctum_. -Thence indeed, on further tracing it, it seemed to shine. This idea -taking full possession of his mind, he got up softly, and shuffled in -his slippers to the door. - -The moment SADSTONE'S hand was on the lock, a strange voice called him -by his name, and bade him enter. He obeyed. - -It was his own room. There was no doubt about that. But it had -undergone a surprising transformation. The walls and ceiling were -so hung with shamrock green and shillelagh branches that it looked -a perfect Grove of Blarney. A lurid blaze, like a blue-tongued -snapdragon flare, went hissing up the chimney, revealing in weird -glimpses on the heated hearth and chimney tiles spectral figures of -impish design and menacing gesture. Heaped up on the floor, to form a -kind of throne, were Blue Books, abortive Bills, scrolls on which -were inscribed endless questions and unnumbered amendments; bundles of -party papers and political pamphlets; pallid sucking-pigs that seemed -to demand rather opportune interment than human digestion; long -wreaths of sausage-like shackles; resurrection pies of indigestible -crust and full of offal scraps and tainted "block ornaments"; -pudding-shaped bombs; barrels of explosives and fulminants; red hot -(political) "chestnuts" of the most hackneyed partisan sort; Dead-Sea -apples of the dustiest kind, savouring of sand and strife; fiery -looking Ulster oranges; belated (parliamentary) pairs, and seething -bowls of raw and vitriolic party spirit, that made the chamber dim, -dank, and malodorous with their heady steam. In uneasy state upon this -extraordinary conglomerate couch or throne, there sat an ogreish giant -of pantomimic size and bogeyishly menacing expression, portentous to -see; who bore a smokily-flaring torch, in shape not unlike an Anarch's -beacon or Fury's bale-fire, and held it up, high up, to shed its lurid -light on SADSTONE, as he came peeping round the door. - -"Come in!" exclaimed the Ghoul-Ghost. "Come in, and know me better, -(G. O.) Man!" - -SADSTONE entered timidly, and hung his head before the Spirit. He was -hardly the dogged SADSTONE he had been, and the Spirit's eyes were so -glowering and ungenial, he did not like to meet them. - -"I am the Spirit of Christmas Present," said the apparition. "Look -upon me!" - -SADSTONE sorrowfully did so. It was clothed in one simple -emerald-green robe or mantle, bordered with buff fur of the dull -tint dear to the old Scotch Whig. This garment hung so loosely on -the figure that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to -be warded or concealed by any artifice. On its head it wore no other -covering than a wreath of shamrock, set here and there with a thistle. -Its dull black curls were long and elf-like and weird; weird as its -frowning face, its staring eye, its clenched hand, its raucous voice, -its despotic demeanour, and its gloomy air. Girded round its middle -was an antique scabbard, holding a huge two-handed sword; the -blade, ready to leap from its sheath, seemed a most unsuitable and -unseasonable adjunct to what mankind has been wont to regard as the -gentle and genial Spirit of Peace and Goodwill. - -"You have never seen the like of _Me_ before!" exclaimed the Spirit. - -"_Ne-e-ver!_" SADSTONE made answer to it, in accents stammering -somewhat, yet most emphatic. - -[Illustration: THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT. - -(_Suggested by John Leech's Picture._) - -"COME IN, AND KNOW ME BETTER, (G. O.) MAN!"] - - * * * * * - -DISTORTED MERCY. - -[Illustration: IT] _is New Year's Eve. In a comfortable arm-chair -by the fire sits the_ Metropolitan Magistrate. _He smiles in -self-complacency. He speaks:--_ - -This year I have most faithfully fulfilled my duty; the spirit of -sweet leniency has marked my every sentence--at least toward the more -flagitious and inhuman offender. Thus have I, in place of punishing, -won over to more virtuous ways; so may I doze the cheerful, -self-admiring doze of virtue. - - [_He dozes. Gathering from the comfortable reflections of the - fire and lamp thrown from the polished furniture, a radiant - form shapes itself at his elbow. The_ Magistrate _smiles in - his sleep, in great content_. - -_The Metropolitan Magistrate._ Who art thou, visitant? - -_The Form._ I am the Spirit of thy Leniency. I come to show thee -how fair and flattering a result thy milder sentences--to wit, those -passed upon the more outrageous culprits--have yielded. See! (_Waves -a wand._) This is he who came before thy judgment seat for--after -repeated warning--selling milk from premises teeming with scarlet -fever. Thou didst say, "_It is the grossest, and most shocking case -of brutal disregard for human life I ever heard!_" and thereupon didst -fine him half-a-crown--the minimum penalty. - -_M. Mag._ (_with affectionate interest_). And since? How farest now, -thou naughty one? - -_Milk Criminal._ O most blessed Magistrate and sweet Your Worship, I -fare most happily; for, most comfortably encouraged by your gracious -leniency, I did redouble--nay, multiply an hundred times--mine efforts -to disseminate disease; so that I may, without undue boasting, claim -to be father of an epidemic that felled its hundreds. And further, in -the doing of this I have heaped up a most goodly pile of gold. Give me -your blessing, most sympathetic Your Worship! - -_M. Mag._ (_recoiling_). Nay; mine intentions looked not toward so -dire result! I cannot bless---- - -_The Spirit._ How, good Stipendiary? Dost thou now disown me, thine -own Spirit? Thou must surely bless thy _protégé_, him who but carries -out thy methods to their logical result! And see, I summon others of -thy choice; this good butcher who hath sent unwholesome meat to -London to feed the poor. Thou didst say of him, "_A most inhuman, -ill-conditioned knave and rascal; a constructive homicide! I will not -imprison him, but fine him seven shillings._" And again, see this good -rough who kicked a constable nearly to death; thou saidst of him, "_A -miscreant unfit to live. A savage worse than any tiger! One shilling -fine._" Then finding he could not pay without foregoing his accustomed -gin, thy heart relented, and thou didst discharge him. Then again, -here have we this fair hawker who kicked his donkey's legs and so -belaboured him with cudgels that he left no bone unbroken; thou -saidst of him, "_An act more horrible and sickening could scarce be -perpetrated by a fiend!_" Then, with a gentle caution, thou didst set -him free. - -_M. Mag._ But tell me, prithee, what the outcome was of these my -leniences. Did results not justify----? - -_The Butcher._ Oh, yes, indeed, in my case! Taking courage, seeing -that justice was so linked with mercy, I did extend most energetically -my little venture in unwholesome meat, and now am rich, and have been -made a lord. - -_The Rough._ And since your clemency, O sweet your Worship, I've -kicked to death some dozens of assorted victims--policemen, girls, and -infants. - -_The Hawker._ And I---- - -_M. Mag._ (_writhing_). Oh, peace, and spare me! Get ye gone! - -_The Criminals._ What? This is passing strange! You will not bless the -work yourself have fostered? - -_M. Mag._ (_tearing his hair_). _I_ fostered? _I_, the gentle -magistrate, the soul of clemency----? - -_The Spirit._ Come, bless thy chosen clients! - - [_With a shriek the_ Metropolitan Magistrate _awakes from - his doze. He is haggard; his eye is bloodshot with horror. He - speaks, shuddering:--_ - -What are these hideous crimes that I have done, mistaking them for -mercy? How unworthy am I to touch so sweet an attribute, distorting -and most basely turning it from its appointed course! There chime the -bells. Let them proclaim how, in the coming year they usher in, I -will essay to win this fair, sweet attribute entrusted to me, and so -misshapen by my cruelties, back to her rightful form! I will begin by -showing mercy unto Mercy's self. - - * * * * * - -A STUDY IN BROWN. - - I've caught you, hazel-eyed brunette, day-dreaming, chin on hand! - Don't think, now, that my stolen sketch is bold and contraband! - Nay, rather, 'tis the _duty_ that's imposed on ev'ry beauty, - To grant that with respectful glance her profile may be scanned. - - To picture such a wealth of brown would VANDYCK'S self delight; - Brown eyes I see, and waving hair, brown as a summer night. - _I_ cannot do you justice, but this thumb-nail sketch, I trust, is - A deep brown-study rendered into simple black and white. - - In reverie reflective, has your wayward fancy strayed, - It may be, to last summer's tryst in some wild English glade, - Or old-world forest-garden, where, like _Rosalind_ in Arden, - Your troth you plighted, or, love-lorn, outmourned the Nut-brown Maid? - - [Illustration] - - You're wand'ring in Mahatma-land, and counting astral sheep? - And gathering wool that never grew, a Brownie-led _Bo-peep_, - Or, possibly, pursuant of an Ego playing truant. - And lost amid the labyrinth of dim hypnotic sleep? - - For all I know, you're musing in this meditative trance - On modern and sublunar joys, as dinner, dress, and dance! - Or is it _toothache_ merely that--well, makes you stare so queerly? - (Somehow I ne'er _can_ draw the line 'twixt bathos and romance!) - - If thus I seem inquisitive, don't kill me with a frown! - Though times are hard, in vulgar phrase, I'll plank my money down! - Your train of thought to share (if you'll accept a penny-tariff), - I tender, with my compliments, the coin that's called a "brown"! - - * * * * * - -PRODIGIOUS! - -TO MR. PUNCH,--Sir,--I appeal to you. Ought scientific papers to be -allowed to publish incitements to bloodshed and anarchy? I have just -read in one an enthusiastic commendation of "an agitator working at -280 revolutions per minute." This agitator is, it appears, closely -connected with an "annihilator." It is true that the annihilator is a -smoke-annihilator, and the agitator is part of its machinery; but who -knows what influence may be exerted upon weak minds at such a time as -this by the use of these awful terms? Is the Home Secretary asleep? - - Yours, - A PATRIOT. - - * * * * * - -MYSTERIOUS.--In _Sala's Journal_ for December 13 the advertisement of -the Christmas Number announces that "arrangements have been made for -publishing the Portraits of the Contributors at the commencement of -their respective articles. This, it is believed, will prove a very -interesting feature." No doubt. But _which_ "feature," and _whose_ -"feature," and to which contributor will "the very interesting -feature" in the portrait belong? They cannot surely have only one -feature among them! Among the special contributors, each of course -with distinctive features, are Sir AUGUSTUS HARRIS, Mr. SUTHERLAND -EDWARDS, Mr. ARTHUR À BECKETT, and Mr. DAVENPORT ADAMS. Excellent -company each, with most interesting features. But which feature is to -be taken as representing the lot? "Nose?" Well, there's point in that. -"Cheek?" Ahem! Will it be "All their eye?" Evidently the only way -of satisfying curiosity is to purchase a copy of _S. J.'s_ Christmas -Number. - - * * * * * - -SEASONABLE RIDDLE.--When does a turkey look a goose?--When quite by -himself he has to face a party of twenty-four. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: INHUMAN. - -_Sportsman_ (_who has caught Brown's mare_). "NOW THEN! THIS WAY OUT, -SIR, THIS WAY OUT!" _Brown_ (_who has already swallowed about a quart -of mud and water_). "B--B--BUT IT'S DEEP!" _Sportsman_ (_impatient_). -"CONFOUND IT, MAN! DO YOU EXPECT ME TO FETCH A BOAT?"] - - -CHRISTMAS HAMPERS. - -_For the Czar._--Alliances--French and Triple. - -_For the Kaiser._--"The Great Revenge." - -_For the King of Italy._--The Military Estimates. - -_For the King of Greece._--The Adjustment of the National Revenue. - -_For the President of the French Republic._--The Legacy of CARNOT the -First. - -_For the President of the United States._--Protected Free Trade. - -_For the Sultan._--The Khedive. - -_For the Khedive._--The Sultan. - -_For the Premier._--His followers. - -_For the Foreign Secretary._--His colleagues. - -_For the Chancellor of the Exchequer._--The coming Budget. - -_For the Home Secretary._--Trafalgar Square. - -_For the Colonial Secretary._--South Africa. - -_For the Postmaster-General._--Cards for Christmas and the New Year. - -_For the War Office._--The Admiralty. - -_For the Admiralty._--The War Office. - -_For the Theatre-Managers._--The Clerk of the Weather. - -_For the Music-Hall Proprietors._--The London County Council. - -_For the London Public._--The Paving Contractors. - -_For the Bar._--The Solicitors. - -_For the Solicitors._--Reluctant Litigants. - -_For the Stockbrokers._--The State of the City. - -_For the Poor._--The Condition of the Money Market. - -_And for the World in general and Britons in particular._--The -Influenza. - - * * * * * - -THE KISS THAT COSTS. - - [A fair plaintiff, who brought a breach of promise action - worth under ordinary circumstances at least £1000, had to be - content with £100 because she had in the meantime been kissed - by a new suitor.] - - The gorse is out in kissing time, - And that is always--so the saw. - But know from henceforth (and this rhyme) - This does not follow in the Law. - For she, who, jilted by her swain, - Brings him to Court, and braves the laughter, - Must--if she longs for gold--refrain - From kissing Number Two--till after! - - * * * * * - -A Little Girl's Christmas Story. - - Polly! | Folly! - Holly! | (Gobbles!) - Jolly! | Colly - Dolly! | (Wobbles!) - - * * * * * - -OUR BARTERERS.--SIDEBOARD.--I have a magnificent-looking article, made -of unseasoned deal, coloured to resemble walnut. As great care has -been taken to imitate a really first-class piece of furniture by a -good maker, it is hoped that the fact that the wood is certain to -split and warp, that the drawers jam, that the keyholes are dummies, -and that the whole is a piece of cunning shoddy, will escape the -attention of the average purchasing idiot. What offers? - - * * * * * - -TO PICKWICKIAN STUDENTS.--Of what class of persons is it recorded in -_Pickwick_ that "their looks are not prepossessing and their manners -are peculiar"? - - * * * * * - -THE CRY OF THE CIVIC TURTLE. - - 'Twas the voice of the Turtle, I heard him complain, - "You would wake me! Be off!! Let me slumber again! - Your 'Royal Commission on Unification' - Be ----!" something that seemed to convey commination. - "_I_ shan't 'tender evidence'--hang it, not I!-- - Why I, as a separate body, should die! - I've power, prosperity, plumpness, and pelf; - If you want an 'Amalgam'--why, mix it yourself!" - - * * * * * - -Feminine Saturnalia. - - [Miss KLUMPKE has just achieved a great triumph with a learned - treatise on the Rings of Saturn.] - - Oh! maiden, learned, wise, you can - To froward woman prove a pattern, - You pay your due respect to Man - By writing up the Rings--of Saturn! - - * * * * * - -NEW PRANDIAL PROVERBS.--What's underdone can't be helped. A bird in a -pie is worth two in a dish. Apollinaris (or any other) water in time -saves wine. The early guest gets it hot. It is never too late to dine. - - * * * * * - -A TRUTH IN SEASON.--What would Christmas be without the Cracker? -Messrs. G. SPARAGNAPANE have their reply ready with their "Cracker -Skirt-Dancer" and their "May Blossom" (so nice in December), which is -a pleasant souvenir of _The_ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers -will "go off" well! - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: INDEX] - - ADAPTED, 64 - - Ad Fratrem, 3 - - Adventures of Picklock Holes (The), 69, 76, 85, 100, 168, 213, 289, - 301 - - Advertiser's Appeal, 270 - - Afternoon Party (An), 13 - - "After the Ball" in Paris, 297 - - After the Call, 243 - - Alexander and Diogenes, 162 - - Anacreontics for All, 273 - - Angels, 186 - - Another Scene at the Play, 64 - - Argentina, 226 - - Arriet on Labour, 88 - - "Art of 'Savoy Fare'" (The), 204 - - At Covent Garden last Thursday, 37 - - At the Sea-Side Church Parade, 73 - - At the Shaftesbury, 123 - - At the World's Water-Show, 40 - - Australian A B C (An), 57 - - Australia the (without) Golden, 94 - - BABES on the Treasury Bench (The), 255 - - Balfour's Boon, 101 - - Ballad (A), 262 - - "Ballade Joyeuse," 106 - - Ballade of Earlscourt, 57 - - Ballade of Lost Repartees, 142 - - Ballad of Departed Pippins (The), 41 - - Ball versus Ball, 297 - - Bank Holiday Beauty, 292 - - Behemoth and the Lion, 182 - - Belfry of Bruges Overlooked (The), 274 - - Bicycle built for Two (A), 258 - - Birds of Pray, 219 - - Bishop Bobadil, 166 - - Bitter Cry of the Broken-Voiced Chorister, 37 - - Black Shadow (The), 210 - - Blue Belles of Scotland (The), 298 - - Bobo, 178 - - Bogus Manager's Vade Mecum (The), 237 - - "Book that Failed" (The), 123 - - Brick-à-Brac, 195 - - Bright and Beautiful Working Man, 192 - - British Athletes Vade Mecum (The), 82 - - Brown Study in Autumn Tints (A), 109 - - Burden of Burdon Sanderson, 142 - - Business, 246 - - "But that's another Story," 225 - - CABMAN'S Guide to Politeness, 209, 225 - - Carr-Actors at "The Comedy," 185 - - Cause and Effect, 245 - - Central Hall of the Law Courts (The), 217 - - Champion Shaver (The), 282 - - Chance for the Briefless (A), 274 - - Change of Partners (A), 279 - - Christmas Hampers, 310 - - City Horse (The), 190 - - Closure at Home (The), 61 - - Coal and Wood, 257 - - Cockney on a Great Collection (A), 252 - - Connected with the Press, 77 - - Conversation-Book for Candidates, 258 - - Conversion à la Mode, 121 - - Cophetua, L.C.C., 113 - - County Council's Progressive Programme (The), 300 - - Cream of the Cream, 219 - - Cricket across the Channel, 61 - - Cricket Congratulations, 70 - - Croquet, 87 - - Crowning the Edifice, 153 - - Cry of the Civic Turtle (The), 310 - - Cure-ious! 99 - - DALY Dream (A), 180 - - Damon out of Date, 205 - - Dance till Dawn, 16 - - Danger! 85 - - Dark Continent in Two Lights (The), 226 - - Decayed Industry (A), 82 - - Deptford hath its Darling, 273 - - "Devil's Advocate" (The), 51 - - Diary à la Russe (A), 193 - - Directors' Vade Mecum (The), 49 - - Distorted Mercy, 309 - - Ditty of the Dog-Days (A), 17 - - Diver (The), 98 - - Double Entente, 228 - - Drama College, 192 - - Dr. Dulcamara Up to Date, 218 - - Dream-Book for Would-be Travellers, 65 - - Ducal Doings, 292 - - "Due South," 137, 145, 157, 169 - - EFFEMINACY of the Age, 97 - - 1893; or, the Government Guillotine, 2 - - Englishman in Paris (The), 77 - - Essence of Parliament, 11, 22, 34, 46, 58, 70, 82, 94, 106, 118, 130, - 142, 154, 226, 238, 250, 262, 274, 286, 298, 302 - - European Crisis Averted! 273 - - Examination Paper for Ladies, 45 - - Expostulation (An), 216 - - FABIUS Fin-de-Siècle, 225 - - Fallen Art (A), 25 - - "Fantastic" Action (A), 192 - - Farewell! 190 - - Fashionable Intelligence, 51 - - Father William, 18 - - Feminine Triumph (A), 277 - - "Flibbertigibbet," 261 - - Fool with a Gun (The), 159 - - "Forlorn Hope" (The), 150 - - Fragments from a Franco-Russian Phrase-Book, 197 - - French Flag (The), 228 - - French Wolf and the Siamese Lamb (The), 54 - - From Colchester, 111 - - From Grave to Gay, 89 - - From Our Island Special, 58 - - From Professor Muddle, 34 - - Future of Home Rule (The), 245 - - GAME of Chance (A), 285 - - Gingham-Grabber (The), 237 - - Going to the Country, 120 - - Golden Memories, 141 - - Good Luck to it! 253 - - "Good Sir John!", 166 - - Great African Lion-Tamer (The), 230 - - HANDY Boy (The), 246 - - "Hark! I hear the Sound of Coaches!", 255 - - Haunted! 101 - - Health-Seeker's Vade Mecum (The), 1 - - Height of Comfort (The), 241 - - "Here's to the Client," 63 - - Her Sailor Hat, 101 - - Highland "Caddie," 122 - - Highly Probable, 282 - - "History (nearly) repeats itself," 261 - - History Repeats Itself, 154 - - Home Rails, 243 - - How to Write a Cheap Christmas Number, 265 - - "Hymen Hymenæe!" 6 - - IDEAL Conversation (The), 159 - - Ideal Drama (The), 202 - - In Black and White, 225 - - Inquiry (An), 233 - - Intelligence à l'Americaine, 10 - - JOHN Bull's Naval Vade Mecum, 118 - - John Tyndall, 277 - - Jolly Young Watermaids (The), 156 - - Just Cause, 25 - - KISS that Costs (The), 310 - - LATEST Autumn Fashion (The), 228 - - Latest Crisis (The), 61 - - Latest Parisian Romance (The), 33 - - Law and Justice v. Duty "done," 286 - - Lawyer's Chortle (A), 205 - - Lay of the "Ancient" (The), 101 - - Lays of Modern Home, 33 - - Lesson for Labour (A), 138 - - Letter Home (A), 183 - - Letters for the Silly Season, 111 - - Letters to Abstractions, 97 - - Life (and Death) in South America, 158 - - Lines on (and off) an Italian Mule, 141 - - Little Bill-ee, 114 - - Little Master Minority, 198 - - Little Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe, 86 - - Lobengula's Letter-Bag, 257 - - London Pest (A), 25 - - London School-Board Vade Mecum (The), 165 - - Lord Chancellor's Song (The), 289 - - Lost Smell (The), 274 - - Love and Law, 142 - - Love's Labour's Lost, 86 - - "L'Union fait la--Farce!", 186 - - MAGIC and Manufactures, 245 - - Making them Useful, 90 - - Man in the South (The), 129 - - Man Makes the Tailor (The), 53 - - March in November, 234 - - "Masterly Inactivity," 174 - - Mature Charms, 261 - - May and December, 305 - - Meeting of the Anti-Biographers, 105 - - Message from the Sea (A), 294 - - Misnomer, 228 - - Misty Crystal (A), 214 - - Moan of a Theatre-Manager (The), 41 - - Moan of the Minor Poet (The), 42 - - Modern Medusa (The), 270 - - Modern Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd (The), 16 - - Mot by a Member, 222 - - Mr. Punch's Appeal--to Coal-Owners, Miners, and all whom it may - Concern, 170 - - Mrs. Nickleby in the Chair, 30 - - Murch Praised, 277 - - Muscular Education, 37 - - Music and Law, 293 - - Music for the Multitude, 49 - - "My Cummerbund," 153 - - My Gardeneress, 93 - - My Landlord, 193 - - My Pretty June, at a Later Season, 189 - - Mystified, 216 - - My Tenant, 193 - - NAME! Name! 226 - - Names for Other Names, 174 - - Nautical Economy, 285 - - N.B.! 214 - - New King Coal, 74 - - New King Coal Corrected, 118 - - New Lights for Old, 273 - - New Version, 273 - - New Year's Eve at Latterday Hall, 304 - - Ninth of November (The), 238 - - Noble Organ-grinder (The), 217 - - No Raison d'être! 216 - - Not a Fair Exchange, 177 - - Note by our own Philosopher, 207 - - Novel Show (A), 121 - - "OBERLAND" Route (The), 221 - - Ode de Knill--and Co., 25 - - Ode of Odours (An), 292 - - Old "Adelphi Triumph" (An), 117 - - Old and New School for Scandal, 249 - - Old Man's Musings (An), 10 - - One of the Maxims of Civilisation, 261 - - "One-Horse" Householder, 89 - - 1,000,000 A.D., 250 - - Only Fancy! 93 - - Operatic Notes, 5, 17 - - Ornithological Outburst (An), 257 - - Orator "Pour Rire" (An), 21 - - Our Barterers, 294, 310 - - Our Booking-Office, 9, 52, 154, 198, 209, 237, 249, 253, 265, 285, - 293, 305 - - Our Opera, 25 - - "Over the Hills and Far Away!", 126 - - "PAINLESS Dentistry," 133 - - Palinode, 258 - - "Paper of the Day after To-morrow" (The), 229 - - "Pas Même Académecien!" 162 - - "Pictures from 'Punch,'" 177 - - "Piece and War!" at Drury Lane, 149 - - Playing the Deuce at the Haymarket, 161 - - "Play is not the Thing" (The), 22 - - Plea for Pleading's (A), 277 - - Poison in the Pump, 281 - - Police Phrase-Book (The), 16 - - Politics in South America, 125 - - Popular Songs re-sung, 73, 241 - - Precept and Practice, 213 - - Preparing for Christmas, 226 - - Prince Alexander of Battenberg, 253 - - Profession of Journalism (The), 222 - - Prophetic Diary of the L. C. C., 16 - - Proprietors' Vade Mecum (The), 46 - - Punch's "God-Speed" to the Pole Seekers, 22 - - Q. E. D., 238 - - Queer Cards, 246 - - Queer English, 34 - - Queer Queries, 36, 37, 135, 240 - - Question of Tint (A), 217 - - "Quiet Pipe" (A), 122 - - Quoth Dunraven, Nevermore! 192 - - RATHER Familiar! 255 - - "Ready, Aye Ready!", 110 - - Reign of Ringlets (The), 158 - - Repartees for the Railway, 202 - - "Resh'prosh'ty," 222 - - Rex Lobengula, 243 - - Rhodes to ----? 225 - - Riflemen--"Form!" 165 - - Rippin', 171 - - Robert at Gildhall, 75 - - Robert at the Manshun House, 17 - - Robert on the Coming Sho, 221 - - Robert's Puzzel, 261 - - Rosebery to the Rescue! 15 - - "Rule, Britannia!", 234 - - Rule of the Sea (The), 57 - - Rules of the Rude (The), 177 - - "SAIL! a Sail!" (A), 78 - - Saint Izaak and his Votaries, 62 - - Schopenhauer Ballads (The), 57, 77 - - Seasonable, 37, 234 - - Seasonable Reflection, 297 - - Seasonable Sayings, 298 - - Seasonable Sonnet, 277 - - Seasonable Vade Mecum (A), 305 - - Seeing the Royal Wedding Presents, 28 - - Self-Help, 205 - - Sax Scotch Pipers (The), 195 - - Shakspeare in London, 264 - - Shooting the Chutes, 73 - - "Single-Handed Run" (A), 267 - - Sir Aquarius to the Rescue! 146 - - Skinners and Skinned, 5 - - "Social Test-Words," 121 - - Song of the Autumn Session (The), 217 - - Song of the Session (The), 3 - - Song of the Shopkeeper (The), 29 - - Sonnet, 111 - - Spirit of Christmas Present (The), 306 - - Star-Gazing, 183 - - Still Wilder Ideas, 94 - - Stormy Petrel (The), 66 - - Stout Singer's Smile (The), 286 - - Striker's Vade Mecum (The), 121 - - Strike-ing Suggestion (A), 228 - - Study in Brown (A), 309 - - Study in Press-Land (A), 149 - - Sub Judice, 3 - - Surgeon-Major Parke, 138 - - Sympathy, 42 - - TALE of the Alhambra (A), 9 - - Tea and Twaddle, 106 - - "Tears, idle Tears!", 264 - - Testimonial Manqué (A), 4 - - Then and Now, 157 - - Three Georges (The), 3 - - Three Jovial Huntsmen (The), 134 - - Three Tartars (The), 141 - - Three V's (The), 210 - - Through the Lock, 42 - - To a Droshky-Driver, 41 - - To a Fine Woman, 66 - - To a Lady, 253 - - To a Lost Friend, 201 - - To a Parisienne, 53 - - To a Swiss Barometer, 64 - - To a Young Friend, aged Seven, 189 - - To Bobby, 297 - - To Doctor Falbe, 141 - - To "Hans Breitmann," 192 - - To Hebe, 229 - - To Marjorie, 273 - - Too Kind by Half, 39 - - To the French Oarsmen, 5 - - To the Sea, 229 - - Tour that never was (The), 75 - - Triolet, 269 - - Trip-lets, 277 - - True French Politeness, 114 - - Trumps for Tramps, 87 - - Trying her Strength, 102 - - Turkish Occupation; or, Visions in Smoke (A), 26 - - Turpin and Trains, 147 - - Timon on Bimetallism, 65 - - "'Twas in Trafalgar"'s Theatre, 293 - - Two Pots, The, 75 - - Two Views of Victory, 233 - - Tyranny of the Unsuitable (The), 269 - - ULSTERICAL Impromptu (An), 228 - - Under the Rose, 112, 124, 136, 148, 160, 172, 184, 196, 208, 220, - 232, 244, 256, 268, 280 - - Under the Roose, 1 - - Union is (Logical) Weakness, 221 - - University Intelligence, 277 - - Upon Julia's Mother, 190 - - "Usual Channel," (The), 90 - - "VARIETY! Va-ri-e-ty!", 279 - - Vision of Royalty (A), 27 - - Visit to Borderland (A), 52 - - "Voces Stellarum," 48 - - Voice of the Thames (The), 45 - - Volunteers' Vade Mecum (The), 29 - - WALK in Devon (A), 202, 214 - - Walking Englishwoman on the Alps, 77 - - War in South America (The), 181 - - Way they have in the City (A), 53 - - "Way they have in the Navy" (The), 41 - - Wear and Tear in Africa, 9 - - Weather Wisdom, 269 - - Were-Wolf (The), 290 - - Westminster Play (The), 293 - - What's in a Name? 33 - - When the "Cat"'s Away, 206 - - Who is it? 93 - - Why Elinor is ever Young, 57 - - Windy Corner at Brighton (A), 297 - - "Wonder-Kid" (A), 269 - - Woodman, spare those Trees! 166 - - Words! Words! Words! 102 - - Word to the Wise Wheelman (A), 219 - - YORKSHIRE Victor, 113 - - You never Wrote, 231 - - -LARGE ENGRAVINGS. - - Alexander and Diogenes, 163 - - "Bicycle built for Two" (A), 259 - - Black Shadow (The), 211 - - "Champion Shaver" (The), 283 - - "Father William," 19 - - "Forlorn Hope" (The), 151 - - French Wolf and the Siamese Lamb (The), 55 - - Handy Boy (The), 247 - - "Hymen Hymenæe!" 7 - - Lesson for "Labour" (A), 139 - - Little Bill-ee! 115 - - Little Master Minority, 199 - - "L'Union fait la--Farce!" 187 - - "Masterly Inactivity," 175 - - "Message from the Sea" (A), 295 - - Modern Medusa (The), 271 - - Mrs. Nickleby in the Chair, 31 - - "Over the Hills and Far Away!" 127 - - Poor Victim (The), 91 - - "Resh'prosh'ty," 223 - - "Rule, Britannia!" 235 - - "Sail! a Sail!" (A), 79 - - Spirit of Christmas Present (The), 307 - - Stormy Petrel (The), 67 - - "Through the Lock," 43 - - Trying her Strength, 103 - - -SMALL ENGRAVINGS. - - Agatha and the Wall-paper, 106 - - "Angels in the House," 47 - - Apple Woman on Lady Salisbury, 171 - - 'Arry and Foreign Traveller, 12 - - Authority on the "Buffer State" (An), 64 - - Bachelor's Reason for Dancing, 29 - - Baked-Potato Man on the Sands, 166 - - Balfour and Treasury Babes, 254 - - Bather trying to regain his Tent, 109 - - Beater and the Serdlitz Pooder, 257 - - Bertie "catches a Crab," 51 - - British Lion and Matabele Behemoth (The), 182 - - Brown getting out of Stream, 310 - - Brown helping himself to everything, 138 - - Brown's Corporation and its Cause, 22 - - Bulky Bride leaving her Parents, 270 - - Cabby and Clergyman, 168 - - Canon's Introduction to a Lady, 210 - - Chiffonniers on Hampstead Heath, 114 - - Cleveland's Dance with Free Trade, 278 - - "Committee Stage of the Home-Rule Bill," 59 - - Complimenting an After-dinner Speaker, 286 - - Conjugal Trouble about Christmas Present, 190 - - Conscientious Hairdresser (A), 34 - - Corpulent Sportsman's Symptoms, 113 - - Counsel and Facetious Witness, 233 - - County Councillor and Acoustics, 298 - - Critic's Two Reviews (A), 277 - - "Daily Graphic" Weather Lady, 153 - - "Devil's Advocate" (The), 50 - - Dining with the Odds and Ends, 165 - - Divorce stands Lunch to Bankruptcy, 297 - - Doctor Dulcamara and Mr. Punch, 218 - - Doomed Bill (The), 119 - - "Ears off in Front!" 121 - - Electric Light in an Old House, 302 - - Eton Boy and Pater's dear Luncheon, 66 - - Excited Orchestral Conductor, 285 - - Farmer Trencherman and the Curate, 169 - - Father Thames Purified, 95 - - Festive Babies, 282 - - Football Match (A), 299 - - Forgotten his Dress Coat, 25 - - Friends in Editor's Sanctum, 58 - - Gamekeeper and Captain's Language, 70 - - Gate-Boy and Hunting Lady, 207 - - German Teacher of English (A), 28 - - Giant Beetle (The), 201 - - Gladstone's "Long Break," 287 - - Gladstone the Diver, 98 - - Going to Cairo for Cheapness, 281 - - Golf Meeting (A), 191 - - Government Guillotine (The), 2 - - "Happy Family" in Fret-Work (The), 71 - - Harrow Scholar in Good Form, 238 - - Hawkins and Merton at a Restaurant, 178 - - Highland Corporal and Photographer, 86 - - His Ancestor's Portrait, 195 - - His Sister's Match-Maker, 82 - - Holiday Dress in the House, 83 - - Hostess of "Present-Day" Age, 63 - - Housekeeper and Servants' Sweepstakes, 229 - - Housemaid's Translation of "Salve," 222 - - House of Apollo-ticians (A), 143 - - "House Party" at Christmas, 303 - - Icicle made for Two (An), 197 - - Improbable Free Fight in the Lords, 131 - - Indisposed Yachtsman's Resolutions, 65 - - Influenzial House of Commons, 275 - - Inspecting General and Yeoman, 15 - - Irish Curate and the Doctor, 75 - - Izaak Walton and his Votaries, 62 - - "Joey" (Chamberlain) and the Hot Poker, 242 - - Jones's Delicious Drink, 253 - - Jones's visit to Prigglesby Manor, 90 - - Laconic 'Bus-Driver (A), 27 - - Lady Hypatia and the World at Large, 258 - - Lady's Story after the Garden Party, 16 - - Lady Vera flattering an Author, 274 - - Lika Joko's Hunting Scene, 263 - - Little Boy and the Martial Cloak, 117 - - Little Old Woman and her Shoe, 86 - - Local Hatter and Baronet, 94 - - Local Mammoth's Neighbours (The), 292 - - Looking at the Knight's Tomb, 150 - - Lower Creation (The), 105, 111 - - Mamma's Vaccination Sleeves, 3 - - Marian not a fit Servant's Name, 202 - - Master Bull's Sinking Ships, 110 - - Master Jack out for Early Hunting, 154 - - Mr. Punch and Coal-Owner and Miner, 170 - - Mr. Punch at Edinburgh, 179 - - Mr. Sinnick's Love for Babies, 246 - - Mrs. Prickles and "Coals of Fire," 225 - - Mrs. Ramsbotham and the Graces, 162 - - Musicians in the Stalls, 159 - - My Lady and Housemaid's Character, 54 - - Naughty Boy and his Governess, 186 - - Nervous Hunting Man and Lady Rider, 262 - - New King Coal, 74 - - News from the Law Courts, 237 - - Not an Ornamental Bishop, 306 - - Old Adonis and his Bust, 99 - - Old Gent and Galloping Coach-Team, 81 - - Old Huntsman's Law Reading, 291 - - Old Keeper and Red-haired Fisher, 11 - - "Out for an Otter-Day!" 189 - - "Out! Her First Ball!" 1 - - Painter and his Hostess, 78 - - Papa putting on Mamma's Hair, 198 - - Parliamentary Bear-Garden (A), 35 - - Parliamentary Football Match, 266 - - Parliament by Proxy, 227 - - People who don't dine out on Sunday, 130 - - Pheasant Shooting, 203 - - Philanthropist and Small Boy's Parcel, 226 - - Piping Satyr (A), 122 - - Podgers and his Host's Shoes, 147 - - Police Protection for Pianists, 217 - - Portrait of Mr. Mince-Pie, 301 - - Priceless Piece of English Coal (A), 192 - - Railway Traveller and Dog, 177 - - Rhodes, the Lion-Tamer, 230 - - Ringlets again the Fashion, 158 - - Rivals and the Fair Siamese, 38 - - Rosebery to the Rescue! 14 - - Scenes in the City, 239 - - Scotch Counsel and Old Lady, 118 - - Scotchman and the Rector, 45 - - Scottish Political Pipers, 194 - - Sea-side after Visitors are gone, 135 - - Seedy Swell's Watch (A), 5 - - Shadows on the Underground Railway, 181 - - Shaftesbury Fountain (The), 181 - - Shy Couple conversing on the Strike, 234 - - Singing Captain and Ladies, 102 - - Sir Aquarius and the Water-Snake, 146 - - Sir Harry on his Rhinoceros, 216 - - Sir Pompey and the French Baron, 46 - - Sir Pompey's Acts of Charity, 30 - - Sleeping Cat o' Nine Tails, 206 - - Small Boy's Dilemma about Hunting, 267 - - Smart Set at a Party (A), 6 - - Snobley and the Sand Ponies, 123 - - Spelling "Soda-water" with a Syphon, 141 - - Sporting Farmer and 'Arry at the Hunt, 231 - - Sportsman who has made a Mare, 243 - - Spreading Himself Out, 305 - - Squire and his Steward (A), 245 - - Stag-Hunting, 215 - - Stout Lady wanting Wings, 174 - - Sultan and Khedive Smoking, 26 - - Tailor's Lobengulous Customer, 250 - - Telephoning Twins (The), 255 - - Three Ministerial Huntsmen (The), 134 - - Tiger and Bear at the Club, 173 - - Tipsy Gent and Baker's Boy, 53 - - Tipsy Undergraduate and the Major, 214 - - Tommy's Ultimatum to his Nurse, 18 - - Tourist Season (The), 107 - - Tourist who didn't Shoot Anybody, 219 - - Trafalgar Square of the Future, 251 - - Two Golfers, 145 - - Two Ladies and the Piano, 42 - - Two Swells in the Rain, 193 - - Two Unknown Painters, 61 - - Very Nice to Departing Guests, 294 - - Vicar's Cook and a Saved Sole, 142 - - Wandering Minstrel and Sea-side Beauties, 126 - - Wanting a Table d'Oat Dinner, 205 - - Week of the Year (The), 23 - - Were-Wolf of Anarchy (The), 290 - - Who would be an M.P.? 155 - - Who would not be an M.P.? 167 - - Young Lady Making "Dinner Eyes," 39 - - Young Lady's Jacket Puzzle, 237 - - Young Muddleigh's Lady Love, 279 - - Young Sportsman and the Bad Shot, 125 - - Young Wife and Horse's Weight, 183 - - Youthful Reprobate and the World, 265 - - Youth who comes Home late (A), 49 - -[Illustration] - - * * * * * - -LONDON; BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., LIMITED, WHITEFRIARS. - - * * * * * - -Transcriber's Note: - -Page 306: "SANDSTONE" corrected to "SADSTONE", to fit context of -article. - -"... to shed its lurid light on SADSTONE, as he came peeping round -the door." - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. -105 December 30, 1893, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH *** - -***** This file should be named 40636-8.txt or 40636-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/6/3/40636/ - -Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Lesley Halamek and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 30, 1893 - -Author: Various - -Editor: Francis Burnand - -Release Date: September 1, 2012 [EBook #40636] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH *** - - - - -Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Lesley Halamek and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40636 ***</div> <span class="pagenum"><a name="page301" id="page301"></a>[pg 301]</span> <hr /> @@ -837,7 +798,7 @@ the children.</li> <li><i>A.</i> He declares that he likes to see the delight of other people's children.</li> -<li><i>Q.</i> What is the <i>spécialité</i> of a Christmas family party?</li> +<li><i>Q.</i> What is the <i>spécialité</i> of a Christmas family party?</li> <li><i>A.</i> Row all round.</li> @@ -916,7 +877,7 @@ same strain, will "do as well." "And," quoth the Baron, suddenly inspired, "what a series of songs for Publishers and Bookbinders might be written! For example, <i>'My Mother bids me bind my books!' 'I am inter-leaving thee in sorrow.' Cum multis aliis -suggestionibus!</i> But this is <i>délassement</i>. Let our toast be, 'Our +suggestionibus!</i> But this is <i>délassement</i>. Let our toast be, 'Our noble Shelves!'—'our noble Book-shelves!'" explains the Baron, gaily; and so back to the Brown Study where, as Baron <span class="sc">Brown Beard</span>, he disposes of the various heads in his department, and signs @@ -1106,7 +1067,7 @@ sympathetic Your Worship!</p> dire result! I cannot bless——</p> <p><i>The Spirit.</i> How, good Stipendiary? Dost thou now disown me, -thine own Spirit? Thou must surely bless thy <i>protégé</i>, him who +thine own Spirit? Thou must surely bless thy <i>protégé</i>, him who but carries out thy methods to their logical result! And see, I summon others of thy choice; this good butcher who hath sent unwholesome meat to London to feed the poor. Thou didst say @@ -1229,7 +1190,7 @@ will prove a very interesting feature." No doubt. But <i>which</i> cannot surely have only one feature among them! Among the special contributors, each of course with distinctive features, are Sir <span class="sc">Augustus Harris</span>, Mr. <span class="sc">Sutherland Edwards</span>, Mr. <span class="sc">Arthur -à Beckett</span>, and Mr. <span class="sc">Davenport Adams</span>. Excellent company each, +à Beckett</span>, and Mr. <span class="sc">Davenport Adams</span>. Excellent company each, with most interesting features. But which feature is to be taken as representing the lot? "Nose?" Well, there's point in that. "Cheek?" Ahem! Will it be "All their eye?" Evidently the @@ -1329,7 +1290,7 @@ in particular.</i>—The Influenza.</li> <blockquote><p> [A fair plaintiff, who brought a breach of promise action worth under ordinary circumstances -at least £1000, had to be content with £100 +at least £1000, had to be content with £100 because she had in the meantime been kissed by a new suitor.] </p></blockquote> @@ -1486,7 +1447,7 @@ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers will <tr><td class="left">Bobo,</td><td class="right">178</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Bogus Manager's Vade Mecum (The),</td><td class="right">237</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">"Book that Failed" (The),</td><td class="right">123</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left">Brick-à-Brac,</td><td class="right">195</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left">Brick-à -Brac,</td><td class="right">195</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Bright and Beautiful Working Man,</td><td class="right">192</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">British Athletes Vade Mecum (The),</td><td class="right">82</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Brown Study in Autumn Tints (A),</td><td class="right">109</td></tr> @@ -1507,7 +1468,7 @@ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers will <tr><td class="left">Cockney on a Great Collection (A),</td><td class="right">252</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Connected with the Press,</td><td class="right">77</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Conversation-Book for Candidates,</td><td class="right">258</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left">Conversion à la Mode,</td><td class="right">121</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left">Conversion à la Mode,</td><td class="right">121</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Cophetua, L.C.C.,</td><td class="right">113</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">County Council's Progressive Programme (The),</td><td class="right">300</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Cream of the Cream,</td><td class="right">219</td></tr> @@ -1525,7 +1486,7 @@ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers will <tr><td class="left">Decayed Industry (A),</td><td class="right">82</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Deptford hath its Darling,</td><td class="right">273</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">"Devil's Advocate" (The),</td><td class="right">51</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left">Diary à la Russe (A),</td><td class="right">193</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left">Diary à la Russe (A),</td><td class="right">193</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Directors' Vade Mecum (The),</td><td class="right">49</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Distorted Mercy,</td><td class="right">309</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Ditty of the Dog-Days (A),</td><td class="right">17</td></tr> @@ -1543,7 +1504,7 @@ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers will <tr><td class="left">European Crisis Averted!</td><td class="right">273</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Examination Paper for Ladies,</td><td class="right">45</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Expostulation (An),</td><td class="right">216</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">Fabius</span> Fin-de-Siècle,</td><td class="right">225</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">Fabius</span> Fin-de-Siècle,</td><td class="right">225</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Fallen Art (A),</td><td class="right">25</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">"Fantastic" Action (A),</td><td class="right">192</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Farewell!</td><td class="right">190</td></tr> @@ -1581,12 +1542,12 @@ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers will <tr><td class="left">History Repeats Itself,</td><td class="right">154</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Home Rails,</td><td class="right">243</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">How to Write a Cheap Christmas Number,</td><td class="right">265</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left">"Hymen Hymenæe!"</td><td class="right">6</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left">"Hymen Hymenæe!"</td><td class="right">6</td></tr> <tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">Ideal</span> Conversation (The),</td><td class="right">159</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Ideal Drama (The),</td><td class="right">202</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">In Black and White,</td><td class="right">225</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Inquiry (An),</td><td class="right">233</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left">Intelligence à l'Americaine,</td><td class="right">10</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left">Intelligence à l'Americaine,</td><td class="right">10</td></tr> <tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">John</span> Bull's Naval Vade Mecum,</td><td class="right">118</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">John Tyndall,</td><td class="right">277</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Jolly Young Watermaids (The),</td><td class="right">156</td></tr> @@ -1656,7 +1617,7 @@ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers will <tr><td class="left">New Year's Eve at Latterday Hall,</td><td class="right">304</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Ninth of November (The),</td><td class="right">238</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Noble Organ-grinder (The),</td><td class="right">217</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left">No Raison d'être!</td><td class="right">216</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left">No Raison d'être!</td><td class="right">216</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Not a Fair Exchange,</td><td class="right">177</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Note by our own Philosopher,</td><td class="right">207</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Novel Show (A),</td><td class="right">121</td></tr> @@ -1680,7 +1641,7 @@ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers will <tr><td class="left">"<span class="sc">Painless</span> Dentistry,"</td><td class="right">133</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Palinode,</td><td class="right">258</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">"Paper of the Day after To-morrow" (The),</td><td class="right">229</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left">"Pas Même Académecien!"</td><td class="right">162</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left">"Pas Même Académecien!"</td><td class="right">162</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">"Pictures from 'Punch,'"</td><td class="right">177</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">"Piece and War!" at Drury Lane,</td><td class="right">149</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Playing the Deuce at the Haymarket,</td><td class="right">161</td></tr> @@ -1757,7 +1718,7 @@ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers will <tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">Tale</span> of the Alhambra (A),</td><td class="right">9</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Tea and Twaddle,</td><td class="right">106</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">"Tears, idle Tears!",</td><td class="right">264</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left">Testimonial Manqué (A),</td><td class="right">4</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left">Testimonial Manqué (A),</td><td class="right">4</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Then and Now,</td><td class="right">157</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Three Georges (The),</td><td class="right">3</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Three Jovial Huntsmen (The),</td><td class="right">134</td></tr> @@ -1835,7 +1796,7 @@ Wedding. Of course, all these crackers will <tr><td class="left">"Forlorn Hope" (The),</td><td class="right">151</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">French Wolf and the Siamese Lamb (The),</td><td class="right">55</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Handy Boy (The),</td><td class="right">247</td></tr> -<tr><td class="left">"Hymen Hymenæe!"</td><td class="right">7</td></tr> +<tr><td class="left">"Hymen Hymenæe!"</td><td class="right">7</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Lesson for "Labour" (A),</td><td class="right">139</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Little Bill-ee!</td><td class="right">115</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Little Master Minority,</td><td class="right">199</td></tr> @@ -2059,382 +2020,6 @@ Wedding. 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